Posts categorized under: 2024-Fall

by Anton Hampe
in 2024-Fall

Anton on transducer continuity (09/13)

There has been lots of work over the last ~20 years situating the phonotactics of natural language in certain classes of subregular languages and finding logical, automata-theoretic and algebraic characterizations of these classes.

This has allowed linguists not only to better understand the cognitive nature of phonological generalizations but also …

by Anton Hampe
in 2024-Fall

M on compositional semantics (09/06)

This week M will be presenting original research on compositional semantics.

Although compositional semanticists tend to have a lot to say about the logical forms of lexical items and sentences, they tend to have a lot less to say about what truly makes their theory run: the nature of semantic …